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Another scam Paypal email

We constantly post Paypal scam or phishing emails supposedly sent by trusted online brands (such as Paypal) in the hopes of warning people not to fall victims into these schemes. Here’s another one we received today.

This one is very similar to authentic Paypal messages on Account Review. Paypal usually sends such emails to Paypal users whose accounts are being reviewed due to certain transactions.

As opposed to the real Paypal message, though, the one below asks the recipient to download an attached file (check.html) and follow the steps there. The email message goes:

How to earn more Paypal referral bonus

We’ve mentioned before that it’s possible to earn by referring people to Paypal. When they sign up using your referral link, you receive an initial bonus of $1.00 when your Referred Merchant has received a total of $200.00. In addition, you get 0.5% of the total amount of their payments up to $1,000 for 12 months.

In our case, we’ve already received around $30 bonus from Paypal in March until early April.

How can you promote Paypal and get more referral bonuses? Here are three tips.

Difference between Personal, Premier, Business Paypal accounts

You’ve already signed up for a Paypal account but have still not decided which type to use. Read more to discover what type of Paypal account suits you best.

There are three types of Paypal accounts: Personal, Premier, and Business.

Withdraw PayPal to bank accounts in Philippines

Pinoy Money Talk is one of the first, probably the very first, to break this news to the blogosphere but expect other sites and blogs to write about this without giving us credit although they got the news from us. LOL.

Anyway, brace yourself:

Effective today, PayPal started allowing users in the Philippines to withdraw funds directly to local bank accounts.

How to earn money from Paypal

Do you know that you can earn as much as $1,000 per person you refer to PayPal?

Under PayPal’s Merchant Referral Bonus Program, you are eligible to receive a portion of the transaction amounts of people you referred to PayPal.

PayPal discourages phone calls to get Expanded Use Number

The Expanded Use or EXPUSE Number is a requirement to lift the $100 sending limit in PayPal.

Those who paid the $1.95 Expanded Use fee via credit card can normally get the EXPUSE Number on their billing statement the next month.

Buying and selling Paypal to convert funds to cash

We’ve already outlined here how to withdraw PayPal in the Philippines and we also have a bustling discussion here of the details of these withdrawal methods.

Almost all of these ways, however, incur a certain amount of transaction fee, for example, the $5 that PayPal charges whenever you make a transfer to your local debit or credit card. At times, you also lose on the exchange rate because the banks’ rates are often lower.

So is there an alternative way to convert PayPal funds to cash without incurring a lot of fees and without losing on the exchange rate?

Yes, by selling your PayPal funds.

List of methods to withdraw PayPal in the Philippines

Based on personal experiences posted by dozens of PayPal Philippines users, this post summarizes the different ways of withdrawing Paypal in the Philippines.

Our list is not limited to debit and credit cards alone. We also gathered information regarding some non-traditional methods of converting PayPal funds into cash.

Confirmed Methods of Withdrawing PayPal in the Philippines

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Each method is explained in detail below.

(More discussion here: How to withdraw funds from Paypal Philippines)